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- To enable and encourage members of this group to review and critique our own class-work (Intermediate and Advanced Watercolor, #7 in the current School catalog) before we destroy it.
- To suggest to the Tucson Museum of Art (TMA) the possibility and interest in creating and maintaining an official website with webpages to be used by each School faculty and student, as well as by the diverse groups of artists connected with the School.
- Copyright to each one of the paintings shown is held by its respective author, owner, and/or publisher, all rights reserved. Temporary posting of the images in this website is the product of nonprofit work for educational purposes and thus is covered under the general provisions for fair use of a copyrighted work. Click for details.
- The copyright to the compilation presented in this website and the copyright to the photographs and digital scans of members paintings, all rights reserved, are held by the T.M.A.W.G.. Click for details.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS About the next Fall-2000 Term
- When: on Mondays (9am to noon), from September 2000 to December 2000. See T.M.A. School catalog to be published.
- What: see below for a list of past activities.
About the past Spring-2000 Term
OUR SCHEDULED MEETINGS
Location of the past meetings of the Spring-2000 term:
- TMA School, Education Building: Discussions about art materials and The Larsen Laws of Dynamical Watercolor Painting
- TMA School, Education Building: still-life
- TMA and Historic Block Area: free choice
- Palomino Plaza (I): free choice
- Palomino Plaza (II): free choice
- Tucson Botanical Gardens: free choice
- De Grazia Gallery in the Sun: free choice
- TMA School, Education Building: portrait of our guru and auto-portrait
- Trail Dust Town: free choice
- Church near the Tohono Chul Park: free choice
- El Conquistador Resort, 10000 North Oracle Road: free choice
- Tohono Chul Park: free choice
- Barrio Viejo @ ~350 South Convent Street: painting, pot-luck, and photo-fest
- Reid Park Zoo: free choice
Information about meetings (sans guru) during the Summer-2000 Intersession follows:
________________________ About the first meeting of the Intersession
- When: April 24th, 2000, 9am to noon.
- Where: Terracota Café Plaza (accross St Philip's)
- What: to be decided
________________________ About the second meeting of the Intersession
- When: May 1st, 2000, 9am to noon.
- Where: Palomino Plaza (Swan and Ft Lowell)
- What: to be decided
________________________ About the third meeting of the Intersession
- When: May 8th, 2000, 9am to noon.
- Where: La Tierra Linda Guest Ranch Resort (7501 N Wade Road (phone #: 744-7700)
See their web site at: http://www.latierralinda.com/- What: to be decided
________________________ CURRENT LOCAL SHOWS
To be updated
- To be updated
- To be updated
________________________ VENDOR SPONSORED EVENTS
click on the event title for more informationNOVEMBER 2000!
- SARNOFF ART EXPO 2000: Saturday November 4th, 2000, 9am-4pm. Plaza Hotel & Conference Center: seminars and manufacturers show and sale, sponsored by SARNOFF Art & Writing.
________________________ RETROSPECTIVE
About our last meeting of the Spring-1999 Term
- When: On a T.M.A.W.G. historical day, Monday April 5, 1999
- Where: Corbett House on the TMA and Historic Block area
- Whom: Taught by our guru, master, instructor, mentor, catalyzer and facilitator, the multifaceted watercolorist and guitar innovator and creatorJames C. Larsen (aka "Chris"), Wtclr. Inst.(T.M.A.), B.F.A.(Univ. of Arizona), N.W.S., L.W.S., A.W.A., T.M.A.W.G.
- What: Interpretive portrait of Chris, with the theme: "How do I see our guru?"
- And: Our results are . . .
Our guru . . . . . . as seen by Christi S. Driggs
Copyright © 1999 Christi S. Driggs. . . as seen by Nancy Johnson
Copyright © 1999 Nancy Johnson. . . as seen by John Brooks
Copyright © 1999 John Brooks. . . as seen by Naomi Smith
Copyright © 1999 Naomi Smith. . . as seen by Pari Vahdat
Copyright © 1999 Pari Vahdat. . . as seen by Juan-Carlos Lerman
Copyright © 1999 Juan-Carlos Lerman_________________________________________________
The Art Quote of the Century "If you look at a painting too closely, you risk losing some of the magic."
John Leighton, director of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, while discussing allegedly fake Van Gogh's.The Art Quote of the Millennium
The AP online newswire (1/31/2000) reported Gov Ventura's views about the art world saying he doesn't think much about Pablo Picasso "Because his sun is a circle with lines going off it, and I used to do that in kindergarten. He has a stick guy sitting on a horse with the sun there. It ain't art."
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To contact the T.M.A.W.G. membership, send e-mail to: tmawg@uswestmail.netThe compilation, photos and scans are Copyright © 1999 T.M.A.W.G. (The Tucson Museum of Art Watercolor Group), Tucson, Arizona, USA
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